2010CBET.2559....1R

Jiangao Ruan, Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China; and Xing Gao, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, report the discovery of a possible nova (mag approximately 18.6) on several 60-s and 120-s survey images (limiting mag about 19.5) taken by Xing Gao in the course of the Xingming Observatory Sky Survey around Nov. 27.5297 UT using an unfiltered CCD camera with a Celestron C14 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at Mt. Nanshan. The new object is located at R.A. = 1:33:27.55 ± 0s.04, Decl. = +30:17:28.4 ± 0".3 (equinox 2000.0). Additional magnitudes from Gao and Ruan: 1989 Dec. 4, [20.8 (Digitized Sky Survey, red plate); 2010 Nov. 25, [19.5; 26, [19.5; 27.835, 17.7; 28.527, 16.8. Their images have been posted at http://www.xjltp.com/XOSS/XM10BH/XM10BH.htm.